Improvement in preparation of food



UNITED STATES:

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM D. STONE, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN PREPARATION OF FOOD.-

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,092, dated April11, 1876; application filed June 12, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM DOMETT STONE, M. 1)., of London, England,have invented Improvements in the Preparation of Food, of which thefollowing is a specification The object I have in view is themanufacture of a vegetable food, which, in its compound form, shalloffer to the several elements of the human body a better and morecomplete nourishment than that supplied by either of its componentparts; and my invention therein consists in combining together the flouror meal of various nutritive grains and mineral salts, in suchproportions that the compound will possess due quantities of albumen,gluten, fibrine, starch, sugar, gum, oils, cellulose, and mineral salts.

'The proportion of the constituents which I have found most nourishingand agreeable is as follows: One hundred (100) pounds of the compoundare composed of various flours and meals, so mixed as to containalbumen, gluten, and fibrine, from fifteen (15) to eighteen (18) pounds;starch, from forty-five (45) t0 fifty-five (55) pounds; sugar and gum,from live (5) to eight (8) pounds; oils, from three (3) to seven (7)pounds; cellulose, from five (5) to twelve (12) pounds; and mineralsalts from four (4) to six (6) pounds.

The proportion of the ingredients in a pound to effect the aboveproportion of constituents is about as follows: Seconds-flour, fourounces; lentil flour, three ounces; bun ley, two ounces; preparedgreats, two ounces rye, two ounces; maize, two ounces; rice, one

ounce; calcium carbonate, three per cent; chloride of sodium, one percent.

The several parts above named are thoroughly mixed or incorporatedtogether, and desiccated or baked, at a low temperature, in a suitablevessel, and are then ready for packing for transportation or use.

By these means a very superior food containing all the practicalelements of nutrition for the human body is produced, and its digestionand assimilation are promoted.

Having thus fully described my food, what I claim as my invention, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture for food, the flour or meal of variousnutritive grains mixed with mineral salts, whereby the composition shallcontain albumen, gluten, fibrine, starch, sugar, gum, oils, cellulose,and mineral salts, substantially as described.

W. DOMETT STONE, M. D.

Witnesses:

WM. R0131. PARKE, H. L. BAILEY.

